embattle

Those raids have further threatened a health care system in the embattle territory that is struggling to cope with the fallout from the war.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

Hunting out two aggressive spiders, he would embattle them and watch with glee through a magnifying glass.

From Time Magazine Archive

She feared he would vent plain speech that would cut Mr. Feuerstein's sensitive soul and embattle his dignity and pride against his love.

From The Fortune Hunter by David Graham Phillips

The ‘licentia crenellare’ of the middle ages was the sovereign’s permission to his nobles to embattle or fortify their mansions.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

They were razed by commission, or by writs to the sheriffs; and a law was further enacted that “none hereafter, without license, should embattle his house.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

The military is crucial to many here, given the country’s embattled status.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026

Daniel Goldman, an activist who specialises in Haredi issues, says that the two main Haredi parties feel increasingly embattled and less open to compromise.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

By Monday evening, footage of the protests had made its way into his stump speech for embattled Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansas, where video clips had already been screened for rallygoers.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026

The embattled star of the Hulu reality series announced in an Instagram post on Monday that she has chosen to step away from the show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

In the evening of October 25, a troop of eight emperor penguins waddled out of the fog and stood looking at the embattled ship.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blame-worthy?

From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville

The portly peltry of a goat; its horns embattling its effigy head; its mouth the nozzle; and its long beard flowed to its jet-black hoofs.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blameworthy?

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville

Then in embattling his Legions, he places the Saints here, and the Angels there, as if one were the main Battle of Infantry, and the other the Wings of Cavalry.

From The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Daniel Defoe

He organized it piecemeal, on a class basis, instead of embattling it as a whole.

From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose